|
THIRZA DEFOE
T is a Grammy Award winning artist for Best Native American music album: “Come to Me Great Mystery” Recent recognition includes: NEA grant for original production of: “Drum is the “Drum is Thunder, Flute is Wind,” 2012 West Village Musical Theater Festival best song of festival “Who I Am” (with collaborator, Collin Martin). Defoe is part of the Autry National Center Playwright development program in LA, the Alaskan Cultural Heritage Center’s Playwright Development Program, and founder of Native Punx. Recent plays, flash fiction, and poetry publications can be viewed in the Pitkin Review, Woody Guthrie Anthology, & the Thorny Locust Magazine. BFA at California Institute of the Arts, MFA at Goddard College and currently at Tisch School of the Arts: Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program at NYU. Member of the dramatist guild. www.thirzadefoe.com |
RACHEL KUNSTADT
Rachel Kunstadt is a librettist/lyricist originally from Westchester, NY. She holds a bachelors degree from New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Study, with a concentration in Musical Theatre as a Representation of The American Dream. She is currently pursuing a Master of Fine Arts at New York University-Tisch School of the Arts' Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program as a librettist/lyricist (Cycle 23). Rachel is the producer of Broadway Sings for PKD, an annual benefit concert that raises money for the Polycystic Kidney Disease Foundation. She is a proud co-founder and co-producer of LezCab. Rachel is a member of The Dramatists Guild. She resides in Greenwich Village with her shih tzu, Bernie.
www.rachelkunstadt.com |
TERESA LOTZ
Teresa Lotz is New York based composer, playwright, and musician originally from Baltimore, MD. After studying composition under Distinguished Artist Professor Dr. Marilyn Shrude, she moved to New York to study musical theatre writing. Past work includes Grounded; an original One Act Musical (Nashville, 2012 - with Ryan Korell), Anonymous, an original musical (Bowling Green, 2012), and Firefly, a new play. Her lyrics were heard this summer in a New York Musical Theatre Festival New Voices cabaret presentation. Teresa works with the Villar-Hauser Theatre Development Fund as a production assistant an music consultant. www.teresalotz.com
|
 |
|
